Hello, Coriaria, lovely to meet you! I, too, read HP as an adult, and soon after reading OotP I identified so much with a particular teacher and member of an oppressed minority that I started writing my story of Sirius-loving Remus’s life.

Somehow perhaps we could be happy that Rowling killed off our favourite characters without using all the potential in them, and left them for us to develop. Most of the extrapolation I did in my post-OotP novel is fantasy, but this year when I’m back writing pre-Azkaban short stories, I’ve enjoyed doing research on details of life in 1970’s Britain. I admire you for not being stuck in writing only fanfic.

Andromeda/Ted sounds like something I could enjoy reading, although I’ve preferred slash and gen.